Résultats Éditeur "Audible Originals" dans Science fiction et fantaisie

For Franny, the end of everything is just the beginning of her adventure. The world as we know it is no more. Cities are mobile. Electricity is rare. Reading is a relic of the past. After an explosive encounter with a mysterious stranger, Franny, a 14-year-old orphan girl, embarks on an epic quest to find the mysterious pilots who steer the cities, hoping that if she finds them, she will get answers about her family's past - and the world's future.

Police Constable Peter Grant ist nicht nur ein relativer Neuling bei der Metropolitan Police, sondern auch der letzte Zauberlehrling Londons. Sollte er aber ernsthaft gedacht haben, dass sein frisch überstandenes Abenteuer in die Kategorie "heftig" fällt, so kann er sich für sein nächstes schon mal eine neue, noch aufregendere Vokabel aussuchen. In "Schwarzer Mond über Soho", Ben Aaronovitchs Fortsetzung der "Flüsse von London", sieht sich Peter Grant fantastischen Kriminalfällen und Gefahren einer völlig neuen Qualität gegenüber, die selbst den hartgesottensten Polizeibeamten in Angst und Schrecken versetzen würden.

Ellen Ripley al fin regresa a la Tierra, sólo para descubrir que LV-426 - donde la tripulación de la Nostromo se encontró por primera vez con los letales xenomorfos - ha sido re-bautizada como Aqueronte. Protegidos por Marines , los colonos transforman el tormentoso planeta contra las adversidades. Pero ante las brutales condiciones de vida y las luchas diarias en un nuevo mundo, hay humanidad y esperanza. Anne y Russell Jorden - dos colonos que buscan la fortuna que no encontraron en la Tierra - esperan a su primer hijo.

Dying is easy. It’s the Apocalypse that’s hard. Before the outside world devolved into a fiery pit of hell, Noel and Julia hosted a successful and wonderfully pretentious community radio show. Now their basement studio is their survival bunker, and they find themselves completely alone. With no escape and nothing left except an increasingly eclectic selection of questionable records, Noel and Julia proudly debut their new show: Is Anyone Alive Out There?. How could they create a stellar show when they really just need to survive?

They were sent to investigate the first extraterrestrial signal. What they found was beyond anything they could have imagined - or feared. On a voyage to a mysterious moon in the Alpha Centauri system, the UEA Centaurus meets with disaster. Only the quick thinking of the flight engineer, Rachel Terman, saves some of the crew. Crash-landing on the moon, trillions of kilometers from Earth, they struggle to carry out their mission and try to survive. But nothing has prepared them for what they will face.

On the world of Dematr, the Emperor and his legions rule over the lands on the eastern side of the Sea of Bakre, and the Great Guilds rule over the Emperor and his subjects. The Mechanics Guild, whose members claim they came from the stars, controls technology far beyond that of the swords and sailing ships of the common people, while the Mage Guild wields strange powers. Jules, an orphan, has fought her way up to become an officer in training with the Emperor’s fleet. But her life is shattered when a Mage prophesizes that her bloodline will one day overthrow the Great Guilds.

Dopo trent'anni di prigionia, Dottor Destino (Luca Ward) si è liberato e cerca vendetta contro gli ex alleati che lo tradirono nel V-Day.

You may think you know Vergil’s epic poem, The Aeneid - the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, prophesized to found Rome. Or maybe you’ve heard of the fearsome Cyclopes, the tragic queen Dido, the Trojan horse, the River Styx and the three headed dog who guards the underworld. But what of the man who wrote it and why? This is that story.

Bela, the reluctant hero, journeys into the inhospitable Sea of Ice in search of the ancient portal that broke the world. Shae, the ship-less Bone Pirate, stands with a Windborn exile before an arms of remorseless metal beings. And Alira, the huntress, faces the revelation of what the Bloodborn are, and the truth of their horrible magicks. In desperation, in determination, and in hope, every step they take reveals new secrets about their past - and new fears for their future.

A towering genius who'd already solved the problem of death by making memory recording possible, Cassia leads a team of scientists and problem solvers to a station floating in the harsh winds of Saturn. Their mission: to grow interstellar ships using nanobots in the planet's material-rich environment. She called them "monsters" to help sell the project to a skeptical public. Little did she know how prophetic that name would become.

Forty years ago, the villains of the world rose up and killed all the heroes.

Thirty years ago, Super Villains won. After killing the Avengers, the X-Men, and nearly every other Super Hero, the Red Skull took over the United States. Since that day, a traumatized Wolverine (Sharad Kelkar) has wandered in a daze of survivor’s guilt and self-loathing over his failure to protect his fellow X-Men and their mutant students.

A window is but a piece of glass through which we view the world outside. It is not meant to distort. It is not intended to do anything but show us things as they are. At Oxford, though, there is a very particular window that reveals a very particular view. It is a view that defies all laws of nature and science. And when a detective is called in to investigate, he is startled to find that view opens a window into his own life–and a mystery he has never been able to solve.

2040, une planète habitable est découverte. La France décide d'envoyer dans l'espace une équipe constituée de scientifiques de pointe et... de chômeurs en fin de droits. Mais une idiote erreur de pilotage tue sur le coup les astronautes, laissant les novices aux manettes. Ah oui, et en plus ils ne vont plus dans la bonne direction. Mais ça, sur Terre, tout le monde s'en tape.

Der spannende Abschluss der Gaukler-Chroniken von Bestseller-Autor Sam Feuerbach um den Söldner Brocken, seine ungleichen Gefährten und ihre Suche nach der Hexe Aglaja. Wohin führt der magische Kompass die vier Gefährten nach ihren Abenteuern in Drachenbein? Schon die Reise über das Nebelkammgebirge zum Nordmeer nimmt einen unheilvollen Verlauf.

Der Müllersohn Raffael verdient seinen Lebensunterhalt mit vielfältigen Gaunereien - stets darauf bedacht, nicht einer Hand oder eines Kopfes verlustig zu werden. Denn nur die Strafen für Diebstahl sind noch härter als das Leben. Eine verhexte Landkarte, sein treues Pferd Diego und sein handzahmer Regenwurm Borsti begleiten ihn auf seinen Abenteuern. Der alte Söldner Brocken gilt als lebende Legende, seitdem er als einziger Streiter die große Schlacht im Nebelmoor überlebt hat. Seine Grantigkeit wird nur von seiner Garstigkeit übertroffen.

Sam Feuerbachs Gaukler-Chroniken gehen weiter: Söldner Brocken und sein Gefährte, der Dieb Raffael, treffen auf die schöne Hure Dana. Welches Geheimnis verbirgt sie - und welches wird sie lüften? Söldner Brocken will endlich Antworten: Was bedeuten die mysteriösen Schriftzeichen auf seinem Schwert – dem Schwert, das nur er allein anheben kann? Er reist mit seinem Weggefährten nach Drachenbein, um einen Gelehrten aufzusuchen. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne für sie: Dana, Mätresse des Herzogs Brandmark, tritt auf den Plan.

A former mercenary turned blind priest, Ash is running from his amoral past - a victim of a power-hungry corporation, Titanus, which used him for mysterious experiments, discarding him when he lost his sight. Through its experimentation, Titanus unwittingly created a dark mirror world called Shade, a place where no human can survive - except for Ash. By opening a rift, Ash can escape into Shade. While attempting to implement a global teleportation system, Titanus makes a grave error and opens several dangerous rifts, which threaten to tear the planet apart.

Brianna loves her new job as maid to Lady Marguerite. Like many high nobles, Marguerite is attended by echoes, silent creatures who look exactly like her and move in perfect synchronicity. News soon comes that Marguerite has been invited to the royal city as a potential bride for the crown prince. Brianna is delighted to accompany Marguerite to the city - and perhaps get a chance to continue her own flirtation with Nico, one of the king’s inquisitors. Then, disaster strikes on the road when they come under attack.

Robots aux angoisses existentielles, mission polaire schizophrène, ruches humaines, plantes envoûtantes et laboratoires de viande de synthèse, plongez dans l'univers futuriste de Wild Whispers, où la Nature a décidé de reprendre le contrôle. Quand les arbres ne seront plus que des monceaux de poussière, et quand l'air aura l'odeur et le goût de la suie : qu'allons-nous devenir ? Nous n'avons pas la réponse à cette question. Peut-être simplement parce qu'elle ne peut pas venir de nous...